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Inaugurated the work for the construction of the new Moroccan port of Safi
Before the three phases of the project it will become operating in 2017
April 22, 2013
Past friday the Moroccan king Mohammed VI has inaugurated the work for the construction of the new harbour area and the new industrial area Safi Phosphate Hub (SPH) of Safi, chief town of the region of Doukkala-Abda situated to the center of the Atlantic coast of Morocco to 120 kilometers from the port of Jorf Lasfar and to 300 kilometers from the port of Agadir.
The new harbour port of call will be realized 15 kilometers to south of Safi in three phases, of which the first it will become operating in 2017, and will be used mainly to service of the energetic and chemical industry of the region, in particular of the new heating plant to coal of group ONEE and the new chemical plant of the OCP (Office Chérifien DES Phosphates), in which the activity of the current chemical plant of the company to Safi will be transferred.
The investment for the construction of the new harbour docks, that tons in the first phase will have an ability to annual traffic of 14 million tons (3,5 million), will pile to about four billions of dirham (350 million euros), of which three billions of dirham by group OCP. The project will create beyond 750 places of job directed in the phase of construction of the port and 180 when the port of call becomes operating.
Thanks to the realization of the new harbour area, the current port of Safi will come destined to other commercial traffics and the crocieristico traffic.
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Past friday the Moroccan king Mohammed VI has inaugurated the work for the construction of the new harbour area and the new industrial area Safi Phosphate Hub (SPH) of Safi, chief town of the region of Doukkala-Abda situated to the center of the Atlantic coast of Morocco to 120 kilometers from the port of Jorf Lasfar and to 300 kilometers from the port of Agadir.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
